Jess and I went for a trip over the Easter weekend to visit some geocaches. The cool thing about Geocaching is how it always takes you to awesome new places, often with fantastic views, and this trip was no exception.
First stop was Pukerua Bay, where there is a cache on the newly constructed Goat Track, a very steep path down to the beach.
The start of the walkway.
The view from the cache – Kapiti Island and the Kapiti Coast.
After finding the cache and filling in the logbook, we went down to the beach for a quick walk.
A panorama from the beach.
Amazing weather for it – very calm, no wind, sunny and warm. It was so quiet and peaceful.
We found this jellyfish, it was amazingly clear.
Click for a close-up look.
Visiting Kapiti Island remains on my list of things to do.
One of the local residents has put this amazing machine gun sculpture peeking over the fence, as if to scare away the seagulls.
Our next stop was just past Paraparaumu, where there is an amazing hidden forest of Nikau palms. The cache here was very difficult to find.
Wow, this one was tricky! My GPS-enabled phone doesn’t have anything in the way of compass bearings, so we were kind of guessing. We walked 12 metres into the forest twice, deciphered the clues, and identified multiple Clue 3′s. After searching fruitlessly for many minutes we gave up.We then walked up the track a few metres and discovered the real Clue 1. A few minutes later we had the cache in hand! Maybe some slightly clearer instructions are needed?
There is also a smaller cache just behind the sign, but we completely failed to find it! Maybe the picnic lunch including a glass of wine had something to do with it?
After almost-not-finding Nikau Reborn, we sat down and had a well-deserved lunch at the picnic table. There were no muggles around so we searched the area for this cache. My trusty GPS-enabled phone led us to the same spot again and again, and we looked for several minutes but couldn’t find anything that matched the clue.Never mind, thanks for the cache anyway!
On the way home we stopped at Lindale for much-deserved icecreams.
If you liked the panoramas here, you might also like these Camborne panoramas which I took from the water tank at the top of the hill by my flat.
All my panoramas are put together using Hugin, which is amazing panorama software. So easy, even I can do it!
I really really love the idea of finding geocaches. Can I come with you sometime when you are searching? Are there any up my way that I can try?
Love you!
Left by Anne on April 19th, 2010